On a good fucking day, I’m a news junkie monitoring newsfeeds and ‘blogs and gettng email breaking news from CNN in the background of my every present computer(s).

I caught the news about Virginia Tech pretty early in my workday whilst still dabbling with my first cup of coffee. Early on it was one person killed, per the reports, so my reaction was subdued but I had taken serious note.

You see, one of the good folks I work with veritably grew up at that school with two parents who work there. News always takes on a weird echoing tone when you are a scant degree of separation from the headlines. Her parents are safe. Their friends and their community are not.

Horrible. Senseless. Tragic.